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10 Best Queer Couples From Disney Movies, Ranked
While it may have been a slow process complete of controversy and backtracking, Disney has finally begun putting LGBTQ+ characters at the forefront of their films and TV shows, and allowing their subsidiaries Pixar,Marvel and Lucasfilmto do the same.
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Despite decades of queer-coded characters and the random appearance of an LGBTQ+ couple in the background here and there, queer couples are starting to reveal up more and more in Disney entertainment, each one taking small steps to pave the way for the next, whether that's by simply passing by or sharing an on-screen kiss.
10 Bucky and Pronk Oryx-Antlerson ('Zootopia')
While Bucky (Byron Howard) and Pronk Oryx-Antlerson (Jared Bush) from Zootopia wasn't the first queer couple to show up in a Disney film - that honor going to Oaken (Chris Williams) and his husband Ceiro, who only appear in one brief scene with their kids in Frozen - it was Bucky and Pronk who made the most waves when the production was released.
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The all-time best LGBTQ movie couples, from Jack and Ennis to Elio and Oliver
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- While there are some great LGBTQ romantic comedies, some of the best queer couples in the history of cinema come from a whole range of other genres.
- From lavish period dramas favor "Maurice" and "Carol" to contemporary coming-of-age stories with "Moonlight" and "Blue is the Warmest Colour," LGBTQ cinema is full of iconic yet relatable relationships.
- Here are the all-time best LGBTQ couples from movies, ranked chronologically in order of release.
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Omar and Johnny in 'My Beautiful Laundrette' (1985).
Daniel Day-Lewis is an actor of legendary status, having won three best actor Academy Awards and earnined a reputation as the method actor despite only appearing in 20 films ac
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Their toxicity, infidelity and literal murderousness make these characters some of the worst gay couples ever to grace the silver screen. But if you fond drama, you may successfully consider these horrible relationships among the best, you glutton for punishment, you.
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Editor’s Note: This article totally has spoilers. If you haven’t seen these films, you might wish to just skim the titles and skip the descriptions of all these worst gay couples.
1. Happy Together (1997)
Lai and the appropriately named Ho, two Hong Kong expats who flee to Argentina to see the Iguazu waterfalls, are in an abusive on-again off-again relationship. Ho seduces other men in front of Lai, the two fight and then eventually get back together. Lai’s eventually able to break their alcoholic, nicotine-fueled cycle of enabling and co-dependence, but the unhurried demise of their miserably poor and emotionally toxic relationship makes their movie’s title one of the most ironic in movie history.
2. The Living End (1992)
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Kristen Stewart has repeatedly shown that there’s more to her than just Bella of Twilight, and she shines inLove Lies Bleeding, the crime film from 2024. She plays Lou, who falls in love with the bodybuilder Jackie (played by Katy O’Brian), but things get complicated when the latter kills someone. The motion picture is a memorable example of the “be gay accomplish crimes” model of storytelling, and the committed performances from both Stewart and O’Brian really aid it stand out from the crowd. And, unlike so many other “bad gays,” they actually get to contain their very possess happy ending, free of anyone who’d like to contain them down.
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Daniel Day-Lewis gives one of the best performances of his career in My Pretty Laundrette, in which he plays Johnny, a street punk who falls in affection with his partner, Omar (played by Gordon Warnecke). It’s a fascinating watch at Thatcherite Britain, as well as a crucial examination of how homosexual love can flourish even across cultural lines. Remarkably, for an LGBTQ+ feature of this era — the production was released in 1985 — the two male leads don’t mee